Batchelor Institute students and staff designs at DAAF’s Country to Couture Fashion Show. Images: Chelsea Heaney The work of visual art students and lecturers at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education was showcased at the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair’s Cou

Last month our visual arts students were featured at the Tjungu Festival‘s Indigenous fashion parade. Batchelor Institute presented a collection of dresses made using fabric produced during a workshop at Mutitjulu and designed and sewn during another workshop at Desert Peoples C

A beautiful new illustrated poem about the homecoming of stolen generation children was launched on Thursday December 15th by Batchelor Press. The Red Dress Woman was written by Goori woman Gloria Daylight Corliss and illustrated by Western Australian Indigenous artist Patsy Mudgedell

L: Otto Sims and Batchelor Institute lecturer Brigida Stewart working on the dress. R: Otto Sims painting in Yuendumu Central Australian Indigenous artist Otto Sims has been invited to showcase his work at the Melbourne Cup Fashions on the Fields event this year. With the help

Batchelor Insitute Visual Arts Lecturer Brigida Stewart with Model Magnolia Maymuru The work of visual arts students from Batchelor Institute was showcased at the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. The From Country To Couture fashion parade featured 20 unique designs from students in